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XML::XUpdate::XSLT - A perl module for updating xml documents using XUpdate via XSLT.
This is not the same xupdate currently available from CPAN at
http://search.cpan.org/author/PAJAS/XML-XUpdate-LibXML-0.4.0/xupdate .
Its intention - however - is identical:
xupdate - Process XUpdate commands against an XML document.
1. xupdate (by Petr Pajas) uses ...
XML::XUpdate::LibXML - Simple implementation of XUpdate format
... which is based on XML::LibXML which in turn is:
[...]
This module is an interface to the gnome libxml2 DOM parser (no SAX parser support yet),
and the DOM tree. It also provides an XML::XPath-like findnodes() interface, providing
access to the XPath API in libxml2.
[...]
2. This xupdate attempts to implement the XUpdate specs using XSLT only.
S: It would be nice to have a pure perl thingy which does (almost) the same stuff....
Q: Can we achieve compliance with its (XML::XUpdate::LibXML) API? (or just a subset ....)
Q: Can we achieve the processing using CPAN's XML::XSLT?
S: Proposal: XML::XUpdate::XSLT!?
Q: Can we mimic/use the interface of the - already established - 'xupdate' program???
Q: Should we follow the CRUD path first?
(CRUD is the acronym for the datastore action primitives: Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete)
S?: Proposal: XML::XUpdate::XSLT::API uses XML::XUpdate::XSLT::CRUD
- XUpdate:
Requirements: http://www.xmldb.org/xupdate/xupdate-req.html
Working Draft: http://www.xmldb.org/xupdate/xupdate-wd.html
- XML API:
- XML::XUpdate::LibXML: http://search.cpan.org/author/PAJAS/XML-XUpdate-LibXML-0.4.0/lib/XML/XUpdate/LibXML.pm
- XSL / XSLT:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
http://www.xsl-rp.de/
http://xml.klute-thiemann.de/w3c-de/REC-xslt-20020318/
http://xmlxslt.sourceforge.net/
- misc pointers:
"Re: Modify XML documents": http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/perl-xml/1265431
XSL Extensions: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/extensions.html
EXSLT: http://www.exslt.org/set/functions/difference/index.html
"how to insert element at required position in document tree?": http://p2p.wrox.com/archive/xslt/2001-06/98.asp
XML APIs for Databases: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2000/jw-01-dbxml.html
o What about proper encoding? (ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8)
o Is it possible to create the required "xsl_template.xml" at runtime via XSL itself?
o Cache contents of external files (*.xml). Performance!
o Can exception / error-code handling be improved somehow?
Esp.: It would be interesting, if the XUpdate payload actually could be applied, or not...
o Conditional processing: <xupdate:if>, etc.
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